Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-28
v.s,,hu,ea Trains.

The latest improvement in the con
struction of cars is the Vestibuled Iraii
built for the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany by the Pullman Car Company
This Improvement consists in the con
nection of two or more cars by means o
vestibules, so that train OF sleepers
whether consisting of two or a Dozen
constitutes one continuous car.
The vestibules are formed by enclosing
the platforms. Their structure Is pri-
marily broad, thick frame OF steel ex'
tending from platform to roof and sup
ported by strong elastic pressure derived
from springs. When two cars are con-
nected these frames press tightly
| against each other, forcing back the
| steel springs. This gives close contact
| throughout the entire surface OF the
frames sustained by high pressure. In
this way great steadiness OF movement
il impaired to the whole train. 1t is
evident that the comfort of the passen.
gers will be increased in the ratio OF the
reduction of the swaying tendency OF
cars in rapid motion, and especially will
this be the case with passengers in the
upper births, 1t will also be perceived
that the steel frames act as spring buffers
from top to bottom of each car, consti-
tuting a powerful barrier, 1t not abso.
lutte protection, against telescoping.
OF this great invention the
New York World says: A
nabob in the railroad world hied
himself to Jersey City yesterday and en-
tered the Pennsylvania depot when the
clock struck one. In his heart was won.
der, and in his pocket an invitation re-
questing him to ride to Hollywood and
back ON the Pullman Vestibuled Train,
the latest wonder of railroad invention.
He saw a wonderful cho ooolate.colored
serpent, with golden stripes and crystal
eyes all over him, trailing out behind
the glittering newspaper locomotive NO.
922. Technically, there were live new
Pullman coaches--the France, Eogland,
America, Ponce de Leon and Esperanza,
but so closely were they welded together
that they were like single flexible car
of thousand feet in length.
The nabob entered, and saw a Won
derful Wis to of peacock.blue upholstery |
and silver candelabra and polished wood
and glittering crystal; he saw seats and
berths, lounges and easy chairs, state.
rooms and smoking.rooms, dining rooms
and bathrooms, and a real American
barber shop. AS a matter of fact, he
could hardly tell where one car began
and another ended, and when the big
serpent went trailing out through the
Newark Meadows, as stately as ship in
/ calm, and the nabob found himself
getting bathed and shaved and dined
md smoked at fifty miles an hour, just
Is TRANQUILITY as he could have done it in
my hotel in New York, the wonder of
his nabob and all the other nabobs sur.
passed all bounds. The so.called ''solld
rain" has been a railroad term for
1ears. The vestibuled train is solid
rain in fact, and the vestibule genuine
vonner of constructive art.
The Boston Herald says of this most
inventions: "The latest now .
lily in the construction of passenger
rains is shown in the one that reached
he city yesterday afternoon over the
Iew York and New England railroad.
/ was built by the Pullman Palace Car
company for the Pennsylvania railroad.
BY an ingenious arrangement the COM
non open platforms give place to COW
red vestibules or passageways connect.
ng the cars, so that passengers can pass
rom ons end of the train 20 the other
without being exposed to the snow and
leet of winter or the dust of summer,
md there is no danger of being blown
rom the platform by the wind or thrown
rom it by the swaying of the rapidly
moving train"
1t is expected that these most com.
ortable trains will soon be used on the
xcursons to Los Angeles.